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Originally Posted By AgHistGrad02:I love all the Mexican jokes, because, you know, no Tejanos fought for independence.

They became Texans. They wanted away from Mexico like everyone else.

Exactly. So why all the landscapers bullshit? Bexar county, where the Alamo is, had one of the largest numbers of Tejano supporters of the revolution, and it seems to most than only Anglos fought against Santa Anna. As a native Texan, a Tejano, and someone who studies this stuff, it seems insulting to people like Juan Seguin and Jose Antonio Navarro to classify all "mexicans" as roofers or landscapers.

Originally Posted By AgHistGrad02:I love all the Mexican jokes, because, you know, no Tejanos fought for independence.

They became Texans. They wanted away from Mexico like everyone else.

Exactly. So why all the landscapers bullshit? Bexar county, where the Alamo is, had one of the largest numbers of Tejano supporters of the revolution, and it seems to most than only Anglos fought against Santa Anna. As a native Texan, a Tejano, and someone who studies this stuff, it seems insulting to people like Juan Seguin and Jose Antonio Navarro to classify all "mexicans" as roofers or landscapers.

Oh Christ, here we go. Shut the thread. Close it down. Someone was offended.

Relax, they're only jokes. If you know what you know, noone can tell you differently.

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Relax, they're only jokes. If you know what you know, noone can tell you differently.

Which is fine, but I think the misconception needs to be corrected. Hell, they named a whole city after Juan Seguin. I get riled up because Seguin and Navarro are native to San Antonio, and the only people that get remembered in the revolution are "Texans" from other states.